Friday, February 28, 2014

Hero Kids RPG

Hero Kids: A Fantasy Role-Playing Game for Children Aged 4 To 10

By Justin Halliday

Art by Eric Quigley

Hero
Kids is designed to be played by 1 to 4 children and an adult Game
Master. It can easily be used with more children, but the maps become
congested. You will either have to split the adventures into two groups
(unwise) or use bigger maps. Six-sided dice are used throughout.

The
core rulebook contains 10 Hero Cards, each
with a different type of
hero and two blank cards to make your own heroes. There is a good mix of
heroes, some boys and some girls. There are also 10 Monster Cards. Each
Hero and Monster has a Paper Standee. The monsters each have 8
additional standies, so the heroes can fight them in groups. No maps are
included in the core rulebook.

A Print-on-demand
version of the core rulebook is available. It has a slightly different
mix of Monster Cards. All but one appears again in the Hero Kids
Adventures. There are no Paper Standies in the printed book.

There
are, as of this date, 10 Hero Kids Adventures and several other
supporting materials. The Adventures all contain new monsters, Paper
Standies and maps.

The artwork and paper standies are
mostly black and white line drawings. The style is simple and elegant.
Eric Quigley does an excellent job of bringing the Heroes and Monsters
to life.

The maps appear to be hand drawn on a 25mm (1
inch) grid. The style is simple and elegant. I like this style of map
and find it perfect for RPG game maps.

Issues
The
only issue I had was with the download, and printing the maps to the
correct scale: 1 square = 25mm (1 inch). When printed out on one page
the maps had 20mm squares. I finally printed them as 2 page posters,
which had 25mm squares. A quick trim and tape the two pages together and
the correct size map is ready for play.

Want to Know More?
Everything
can be purchased as downloads from drivethrurpg.com and rpgnow.com.
Look for Hero Forge Games. All downloads contain a printer friendly
version. The Hero Kids Core Rulebook download comes with an adventure;
Basement O Rats.

For more information see the Hero Kids RPG Blog (http://herokidsrpg.blogspot.com/).